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History

Hel was one of three children born to Loki and Angrboða. As the children's birth were one of the catalysts for Ragnarök, she and her brothers were placed under careful watch, with Hel becoming queen of the dishonorable dead. After the death of Balder at her father's hands, she agreed to resurrect him only if all living things cried for the fallen god. All but a giantess (actually Loki) wept for him, so he will stay dead until Ragnarök.

Thor sends Magnus Chase to Blue Hill where he meets Hel. While there, she tells the son of Frey that "for every einherji, a thousand souls who enter her realm. " She tries to get Magnus to give his uncle, Randolph, Jack and abandon his quest in exchange to be reunited with his mother Natalie. Magnus refuses her offers and threatens to cut her in two if they ever met again. She then turns into snow and vanishes.

Appearance

Hel

Hel's left side body and face is described as "heart-achingly beautiful, about twenty-five years old, with her ermine cloak shimmering like a snowdrift rippling in the wind. She has long dark hair and pale elven skin. The right side, however, is terrifying - withered skin, a skeletal hand, and leg, patches of blue ice covering decayed flesh, membrane-thin lips over rotten teeth, a milky-white eye and tufts of desiccated hair like black spider webs." She has a milky zombie gaze, which Magnus finds very unnerving.

Personality

Her half-sister, Samirah, describes Hel as even more deceitful then their father Loki. She also appears to take pity on those in her realm.

Abilities

Cryokinesis: As her world is cold and ice ridden, she may have control over ice and the cold.

Snow Mimicry: She is able to turn into a flurry of snow, as she did when leaving Magnus.

Necromancy: As the Goddess of the Dishonorable Dead, she has control over her subjects.

Charmspeaking (probably limited): Like her father and brothers, Hel can be much persuasive to manipulate persons and possible control them, like she tried to make with Magnus's in The Sword of Summer.